Very cool, it got me right even though I am not an easy case, as I speak several languages and not use my mother tongue much anymore
AI Guesses Your Accent
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#222This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard…
If you learned English after 16. You probably still have an accent. Native speakers are really, really, really good at detecting it. They probably know as soon as you say "Hi".
Yep big difference in accents of my cousins who moved here when they were 9 and another when they were 18. Now they are in their mid forties and you can still tell who moved when based on their accent. Its impossible to change your accent after late teens.
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#223Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.
> Don't do this.
No. Its fine. go ahead and do this ( if you want).
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#224It doesn't work. I tried atleast 15 times and it says it has trouble identifying and something not right! Well, There you go! for wasting my time....
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#225This is just so they can steal everyone's voice, avoid.
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#226Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.
I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?
At this point, those are also places where we should not be sharing our voices.
Or, given similar concerns about image and video generation, our faces.
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#227I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese? A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated…
> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese
It caught me off guard too, portugese from portugal do sound somewhat slavic if you're not familiar with either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdDQEHL7i44
Even my slavic gf was tricked for a few seconds and wasn't sure if it was some kind of eastern language she wasn't aware of.
And for the explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pik2R46xobA
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#228My whole life has been a lie, thought I was danish but apparently I'm burmese
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#229Was rather surprised to see the language preferences. I wonder if availability of the training data has to do with the language bias.
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#230What I really want is an AI to translate difficult accents into ones more familiar to me because there is lots of content that is just too taxing for me to listen due to the mental load.